VOA – The United States reimposed sanctions on Iran’s oil industry and financial sector Monday, following through on President Donald Trump’s pledge to roll back relief Iran received as part of the international agreement to limit its nuclear program.
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Iran: Protesters Sentenced in Unfair Trials
HRW – Iran’s judiciary convicted at least 24 protesters on vaguely defined national security charges, Human Rights Watch said today. Their prison sentences ranged from six months to six years.
Read More »Dervishes Convicted To More Than 1,000 Years In Prison
Radiofarda – More than 200 Gonabadi dervishes have been sentenced to more than 1000 years of prison time, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reports.
Read More »Iran’s Guardian Council Rejects Bill Banning Terror Financing
Radiofarda – Iran’s powerful Guardian Council on Sunday rejected a bill on joining the UN convention against terrorist financing seen as crucial to maintaining trade and banking ties with the world.
Read More »Oil Price Rally Faces Tidal Wave Of Supply
Radiofarda – The oil market’s two-year bull run is running into one of its biggest tests in months, facing a tidal wave of supply and growing worries about economic weakness sapping demand worldwide.
Read More »IRGC Commander Threatens ‘Dominance’ Over The U.S. In Mideast
Radiofarda – Deputy Commander of Iran’s IRGC has issued new threats against the United States, hours before additional sanctions come into play against the Islamic Republic.
Read More »ANALYSIS: With unending protests, will these sanctions be toughest ever on Iran?
Al-Arabia – With hours to go before the Iran sanctions deadline painful sanctions on Iran’s oil industry will impose, which the Trump administration says are the toughest penalties ever to be placed on the country.
Read More »Pompeo: US sanctions will target Iran’s regime, not people
Al-Arabia – United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that upcoming economic sanctions against Tehran is focused on targeting the Iranian regime, not its people.
Read More »Civil Azerbaijani Activists Tortured By Intelligence Agents In Iran
Iran-HRM – Ministry of Intelligence agents violently attacked two female Azerbaijani Turkic activists in an attempt to extract false confessions, leaving one in the hospital with broken teeth and injured fingers.
Read More »Iran Marks Anniversary Of U.S. Embassy Seizure
RFL/RE – Thousands of Iranians marched in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy that led Washington to cut diplomatic ties with Iran.
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